YMMV / Full Metal Daemon Muramasa

• Anticlimax Boss: Despite his appearance and the fact that he's particularly a Physical God, the entire confrontation between Kageaki / Muramasa and Majin Ukyo is pretty much the most anticlimatic "fight" in the entire story. That might as well have been the point since it happens directly before the final battle between Kageaki and Hikaru.
• Anvilicious: The story is very unsubtle with its "Killing is bad" aesop. While it is only using that aesop as a segue into its other themes about deconstructing heroism, it can sometimes come across as way too preachy for some people.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening theme, "MURAMASA", provides an utterly awesome piece of music to serve as the opening salvo for this VN.
  • Blade Arts III, an intense and blood-pumping track for whenever the action heats up.
  • The Urge, a rock track reserved to the novels most climactic and hotblooded moments, usually playing as Awesome Moments are racked up left and right.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: For most people, Muramasa's human form, which mainly becomes relevant in only one of the game's routes, is the only thing they have heard of the game due to her alluring figure.
• Cult Classic: The VN is often heralded as one of the best ever written within the medium, and yet it is hardly known of outside of the very hardcore visual novel audience.
• Hype Backlash: Perhaps inevitable but the VN is often heralded as one of the best ever written and as such there are those that end up reading it thanks to the hype and then not getting what the praise was all about.
• Memetic Mutation: "Smiling Kageaki". Kageaki's horrible attempt to appear approachable has earned itself quite the reputation within the fandom. The fact that the same smile appeared again when he roped Muramasa into wearing a maid outfit flung this straight into Memetic Molester territory as well.
• Moral Event Horizon: In the epilogue Ichizo crosses the horizon and then some by first not only making seem like he had killed Muramasa just as it seemed like Kageaki was about to get some peace in his life in order to goat him into falling to a blind rage with the real kicker being that Muramasa is still alive and this whole thing was just to make Kageaki kill her himself. Ichizo did all of this, including letting himself be killed, just to make Kageaki suffer. If his past actions hadn't made him appear vile enough, this is what cinches it.
• Nausea Fuel: In the Hero route, Ichijo being force-fed the fetus of Yoshikiyo's nephew and then actually biting down on it manages to be an utterly nauseating scene.
• That One Level:
  • Two words that is sure to make even the most hardcore fans of the VN squirm would be "Airship section". In one portion of the Nemesis route Kageaki has to infiltrate an airship and what up to this point had been a fairly normal VN in terms of structure undergoes an Unexpected Gameplay Change and turns into something closer to an Adventure Game with some parts even involving some Violation of Common Sense. Needless to say, if the player had avoided a guide up until this point, here is where they whip it out.
  • Much later one that once again involves an Unexpected Gameplay Change. During the final battle against Ginseigo, it once again shifts from a visual novel to a puzzle game where Muramasa needs to apply her powers in a certain way. It is quite a difficult puzzle that require not only math skills but also some lateral thinking in order to solve making it once again quite the spike in difficulty from what is otherwise a visual novel.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: It's a tight, extremely well-written novel, but gosh is it grim.
• Tough Act to Follow: Full Metal Daemon Muramasa is the Tough Act to Follow for Nitro+ with it not only being heralded as one of their best visual novels, but one of the best visual novels ever written across the entire medium, period. Due to this, all of their future releases have to deal with the fact that they are in this VN's shadow.

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